Mel Brooks
1 FOLLOWER • 56 CREDITS • JUN 28, 1926 • 98
Biography
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Melvin Brooks (né Kaminsky, born June 28, 1926) is an American filmmaker, comedian, actor and composer. He is known as a creator of broad film farces and comic parodies. Brooks began his career as a comic and a writer for the early TV variety show Your Show of Shows. He became well known as part of the comedy duo with Carl Reiner in the comedy skit The 2000 Year Old Man. He also created, with Buck Henry, the hit television comedy series Get Smart, which ran from 1965 to 1970.
In middle age, Brooks became one of the most successful film directors of the 1970s, with many of his films being among the top 10 moneymakers of the year they were released. His best-known films include The Producers, The Twelve Chairs, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, Silent Movie, High Anxiety, History of the World, Part I, Spaceballs and Robin Hood: Men in Tights. A musical adaptation of his first film, The Producers, ran on Broadway from 2001 to 2007.
In 2001, having previously won an Emmy, a Grammy and an Oscar, he joined a small list of EGOT winners with his Tony award for The Producers. He received a Kennedy Center Honor in 2009, the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2010, the 41st AFI Life Achievement Award in June 2013, a British Film Institute Fellowship in March 2015, a National Medal of Arts in September 2016, and a BAFTA Fellowship in February 2017. Three of his films ranked in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 comedy films of the past 100 years (1900–2000), all of which ranked in the top 15 of the list: Blazing Saddles at number 6, The Producers at number 11, and Young Frankenstein at number 13.
Brooks was married to Oscar-winning actress Anne Bancroft from 1964 until her death in 2005.
Known For
Tony Awards
Frasier
Golden Globe Awards
Real Time with Bill Maher
Only Murders in the Building
The Wonderful World of Disney
The Simpsons
Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee
Primetime Glick
The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
Inside Comedy
The Paul Reiser Show
Mad About You
Curb Your Enthusiasm
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Toy Story 4
Young Frankenstein
The Prince of Egypt
Robin Hood: Men in Tights
Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation
Dick Van Dyke: 98 Years of Magic
Hotel Transylvania 2
The Little Rascals
Look Who's Talking Too
Blazing Saddles
Robots
Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank
Ballerina
Mickey's Audition
Sex, Lies and Video Violence
Forky Asks a Question: What Is Love?
If You're Not in the Obit, Eat Breakfast
The Terrible Elephant Man Revealed
Dracula: Dead and Loving It
Silent Movie
The Oscars
Life Stinks
History of the World: Part II
Spaceballs
History of the World: Part I
Mel Brooks: Unwrapped
Production Credits
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